1535
| 1535 • Fray Tomás de Berlanga discovers the Galápagos Islands when blown off course en route to Peru. |
1607
Age: 72y
| 1607 • Jamestown: The president directs the fort to be strengthened and armed against the many attacks of the natives: "Hereupon the President was contented the Fort should be pallisadoed, the ordinance mounted, his men armed and exercised, for many were the assaults and Ambuscadoes of the Savages ..." [John Smith, Proceedings (Barbour 1964)] |